The Banner Saga 2, second chapter in Stoic Studio's Norse-themed tactical turn-based and choice & consequence trilogy, was originally supposed to have been released last year. However, Stoic appear to have gotten themselves sidetracked with the console port of the first game, as well as a tabletop spinoff called The Banner Saga: Warbands, and the sequel ended up getting delayed, first to an unspecified "Winter", then to Q1 2016, and now finally to April 19th. Here's the announcement on the game's Steam page, where it is now available for pre-order:

Hello All

Huge thank you for playing The Banner Saga and supporting us during development. Being a small team and working on something we love is both amazing and challenging but we're finally here with Banner Saga 2. Thank you all and we can't wait to get you folks in game!

We're proud to have the Windows and OSX version of the game launching on April 19th. The preorder will also be on a 10% discount up until we launch the game but we will not have any launch day or launch week discounts, however our main price will only be 19.99 this time around instead of 24.99.

April 19th will be here soon! If you have any questions, please let us know via the Steam Forums, Twitter, or Facebook.
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There's been practically no news about Banner Saga 2 for the past six months, but looking at the game's new website, it seems everything we learned about it back then is still relevant. If you liked the first game, then this one is the same but better, so get it now before the price goes up.